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9780415223034

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415223034

  • ISBN10:

    0415223032

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-12-21
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Everyday Life and Cultural Theoryprovides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the Mass Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists. Individual chapters examine: * Theories of the everyday * Fragments of everyday life * Surrealism: the marvelous in the everyday * Walter Benjamin's Trash Aesthetics * Mass Observation: the science of everyday life * Henri Lefebvre's Dialectics of Everyday Life * Michel de Certeau's Poetics of Everyday Life * Everyday life and the future of cultural studies.

Author Biography

Ben Highmore is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vi
Preface and acknowledgements vii
Figuring the everyday
1(16)
Arguments
17(16)
Simmel: Fragments of everyday life
33(12)
Surrealism: The marvellous in the everyday
45(15)
Benjamin's trash aesthetics
60(15)
Mass - Observation: A science of everyday life
75(38)
Henri Lefebvre's dialectics of everyday life
113(32)
Michel de Certeau's poetics of everyday life
145(29)
Postscript: Everyday life and the future of cultural studies
174(5)
Bibliography 179(15)
Index 194

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